Proverbs 30:17

Tree of Life Version

The eye that mocks a father and scorns obeying a mother— will be pecked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by young vultures!

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who begot you and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

Leviticus 20:9

“Any man who curses his father or his mother should surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, and his blood should be on him.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in utter darkness.

2 Samuel 21:10

Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it on the rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until the rain poured on them from the sky. She did not let the birds of the sky rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

1 Samuel 17:44

The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, so I may give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.”

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your carcass will be food for every bird of the heavens and beast of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

Proverbs 30:18

Three things are too amazing for me, four I do not understand:

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. So if I am Father, where is My honor? If I am Master, where is My reverence?”—says Adonai-Tzva’ot—“you, kohanim who despise My Name!” But you say, “How did we despise Your Name?”